…they aren't just for Christmas anymore!
“Christmas In My Heart,” starring Heather Hemmens, Luke Macfarlane, and Sheryl Lee Ralph, aired on October 23, 2021 during the premiere weekend of 2021’s Miracles of Christmas on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel. A trio wrote the screenplay, Jamie Pachino, Shari Sharpe and Liz Storm. Pachino had a hand in…
2020 is finally coming to an end. We all hope and pray for better things in 2021. I count it a miracle of its own kind that Hallmark was able to present a total of 68 movies to us this year, given all of the difficulties they had to work…
“Project Christmas Wish” aired on December 20, 2020 on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel and starred Amanda Schull and Travis Van Winkle. Jeff Beesley, director of last year’s The Christmas Club, also directed this movie, with a well-written script by Joie Botkin and Anne Abramowitz Junget. It was filmed…
“Swept Up by Christmas” aired on December 19, 2020 on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel. This is one of the rare Hallmark movies filmed in Montreal, Canada. It starred Lindy Booth and Justin Bruening with Hallmark newcomer Philippe Gagnon directing. The screenplay came from a trio of writers, Nicole…
“A Glenbrooke Christmas” aired on December 12, 2020 on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel. One my screenwriting faves, Julie Sherman Wolfe, co-wrote the screenplay with David Golden. The movie is loosely based on the book Secrets by Robin Jones Gunn (affiliate link). David I. Strasser directed the movie, which…
“USS Christmas” aired on November 28, 2020 on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel. Steven R. Monroe directed with the script by Andrea Canning. Canning’s next movie coming up is “Christmas She Wrote” on December 6. Set in Norfolk it was actually filmed in Wilmington, NC. It starred Hallmark regulars…
“Meet Me At Christmas” aired on November 14, 2020. I had this review in draft mode and realized I never published it – for those that loved the movie, I apologize for the delay. For those that didn’t quite love the movie, I’m afraid I was right there with you.…
“Cranberry Christmas” aired on October 31, 2020. It starred Nikki Deloach and Benjamin Ayres, with principal photography taking place this past summer in British Columbia, Canada. The screenplay was provided by Joie Botkin, who has been writing Hallmark screenplays since 2017, including “Miss Christmas” (which I like a lot), “Christmas…
I know this writeup has been a long time coming, but the fourth movie from last weekend was “Deliver by Christmas,” which aired on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel on October 25. This one starred Alvina August and Eion Bailey, who hasn’t appeared in a Hallmark movie since 2017’s “Switched…
Well, we did it, everybody. At times I had my doubts that I’d ever get through all the movies (and my Tivo watchlist says that while I did watch all of Hallmark’s, I have quite a few movies from the other networks that I still need to watch). Last year…
“Time for You to Come Home for Christmas” originally aired on December 8 on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel, starring one of my all-time female faves, Allison Sweeney, and Lucas Bryant, who some may recall from Hallmark’s 2016 movie “Summer Love” co-starring Rachael Leigh Cook. “Time for You” was set…
“A Homecoming for the Holidays” originally aired on December 7 on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel, starring Laura Osnes and Stephen Huszar. I was glad to finally see Osnes in a movie, given the fact that her summer movie, “In the Key of Love,” got shuttled off the regular Hallmark…
“Our Christmas Love Song” aired on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel on Sunday, November 24 at 9 p.m. This was the movie I was kind of dreading because I’m not the biggest Alicia Witt fan DESPITE the fact that I love two of her Christmas movies, “A Very Merry Mixup”…
“Holiday Hearts” aired on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel on Saturday, November 23 at 9 p.m. This was the first weekend where the two main Hallmark channels were in direct competition with each other. I opted to Tivo both, and at 10 p.m. started watching “Holiday Hearts” and then watched…